Todd Aglialoro
Role at the time: Director of publishing at Catholic Answers Press, writing a signed opinion essay for Catholic Answers Magazine
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El-Sayed’s comparison between Sharia and Christian canon law is misleading because their relationships to civil government differ.
“Canon law is inherently ecclesial and thus inherently limited.”
Complete signed original opinion essay, dated August 27, 2026, read with its author’s official biography. Aglialoro argues that Catholic canon law governs church affairs while Sharia can have broader civil functions. That distinction is his argument against El-Sayed’s analogy, not our conclusion about every form of religious law or El-Sayed’s intentions. The opening discussion of a separate medical-policy exchange is outside this reaction’s scope. No personal social account was verified; Catholic Answers’ organizational accounts are not attributed to the author.
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The signed essay directly challenges the comparison used in El-Sayed’s defense. It does not establish that El-Sayed himself proposes imposing religious law.